Monthly Archives: June 2012

The Trial Court, in collaboration with the Division of Capital Asset Management, has launched a strategic planning process for the state’s court system and is seeking a company with expertise in strategic consulting.

The Supreme Judicial Court is seeking comments on a newly proposed rule that would require new lawyers in Massachusetts to complete a one-day “practicing with professionalism course.” On the joint recommendation of the Board of Bar Examiners and the Board ...

The University of Massachusetts School of Law has announced it is freezing tuition and mandatory school-related fees for the next three years. The freeze follows the recent announcement that UMass Law secured provisional accreditation by the American Bar Association, which ...

An MBTA passenger who was injured on a Green Line subway train that crashed moments after its driver sent a text message to his girlfriend has been awarded $1.23 million by a Suffolk Superior Court jury in the first civil ...

To the editor: The announcement of the American Bar Association’s accreditation of the University of Massachusetts School of Law in Dartmouth is recognition by the ABA of the quality and respect for the law school. There can be no doubt ...

The Supreme Judicial Court has upheld a first-degree murder conviction despite the defendant’s claim that the trial judge unfairly “interjected himself into defense counsel’s efforts” at various times during the trial. The SJC acknowledged that Superior Court Judge Thomas E. ...